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BROWN & PATTERSON.

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Patented Feb. 8, 1870.

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Letters Patent No. 99,631, dated February 8, 1870.

BASIS IOR SUMMER-PIECES AND GRATIS-FRAMES, m The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making part of the same.

W To all 'whom't't may concern 7 room like. the fender, and, being removable with the L Be it known that WGLANDREW BROWN and WIL- summer-piece, is taken away. therewith,- and notin- LIAM PATTERSON, of Brooklyn, E. D., in the county j ured by a fire built in the grate. of Kings and' State of New York, have inventedau In thedrawing- V 1 Improvement in B-ases for'Summer-Pieces and Grate- Figure 1 is a verticalsection' of the grate-frame, Frames, and that the following is acorrect description summer-piece, and base; and

of the same." I V Figure 2 is a sectional plan of the same.

ltis usual in the manufacture of grates and grate- The grate-frame his to beof any desired size, shape, frames, to provide afender for catching ashes and coals or ornamentation, and the summer-piece b'lisadapted when 'a fire is made in the'grate. A summer-piece is to said grate-frame,,-and-of anyhsual character, .also provided, to take the place of the grate'in arm .0 is the base of the summer-piece, setting against weather. Freqnent-ly,'i n houses heated by a furnace, the lower part of thegrate-fi-ame b, for "the purposes the grates are. not used,.and only the su'mmenpiece is aforesaid. employed. When the summer-piece only is employed We have shown this base was made in one piece with the grate-frame, the hearth iseither left bare and with the summer-piece b; It might, however,'be a unsightly,*or the carpet cannot be secured at the edge, separate castingl I because the hearth-stone prevents 'thecarpet being This invention greatly improves-the'appearance of tacked down. V the summer-piece and grate-fi'aine,andinsmall houses To hold-(low the 'carpet and make a proper finish,v it is of considerable importance-,beoauseit"allows the the 'fender is generally set in front of the summer, fender to be clispensedwith, and the base itself does piece. This fender oocupies; considerable'space. It not prrfieetinto the room'so'as 'to occupy useful space. is in the way, and liable to catch in dresses or skirts, We claim, as our invention and a fender that .has been used in front of a'fire The base c-for the movable summer-piece and grateusually-has to be repainted at, the end'of the season, frame, substantially as andfor the purposes specified.

'or its appearance wonldbe objectionable. Signed this 2ls'tidayof December, A. D. 1869.

' The nature of our said invention consists in a mova- ANDREW- BROWN. ble summer-piece andbasacombined with the grate WILLIAM PATTERSON fmme. lhe movable base setting upon the edge of the carpet, keeps that down, and at the same time Y Witnesses: makes a finish to the summer-piece audi grate-frame, LS, WATERS,

audit does not occupy space by projecting into the. LEMUEL W. SERBELL. 

